Empirisys·PinnedCreating Culture at EmpirisysEmpirisys is a year and a half old and while growing we’ve thought a lot about the kind of company we want to build. Here are the five things we do that shape our culture. — Having started with two founders, Gus and Pete, Empirisys now comprises numerous employees, interns, advisors, associates and partners. …Culture6 min read
Empirisys·Jul 15Why History Repeats itself: Major Accidents over TimeAccidents in high-hazard industry continue to claim thousands of lives every year across the globe. Almost half a million workers worldwide have lost their lives to workplace incidents since 2005. Unfortunately, these numbers have not reduced much in the last decade, with fatal injuries still averaging 14.8k per year. This…Human Error8 min read
Empirisys·Jun 27Human Data insights in Process SafetyI was a young trainee engineer on a night shift of a chemical production unit 30 years ago when an experienced operator overrode a safety system and sent chemical feedstock into the wrong reactor. The consequences could have been catastrophic but only through luck they weren’t. Following the investigation, the…Process Safety5 min read
Empirisys·May 16Training AI to Work for YouUsing an AI Survey Analysis Tool to accurately assign sentiment and topic to survey responses. — Natural Language Processing is a constantly evolving field. Morgan Walters explains below how to use GPT-3 to understand how survey respondents *really* feel. GPT- 3 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3) is an extremely capable and powerful natural language AI model created by OpenAI. It has been trained on a vast database…Naturallanguageprocessing5 min read
Empirisys·May 6The Day That Changed My LifeIt was twenty one years ago (21 May 2001) that I received the call that changed my life. I was working at Yule Catto having recently joined them from Dow Chemicals where I had been working in operations and engineering roles. …Safety4 min read
Empirisys·May 4Five Leadership Mistakes Of The Galactic EmpireMistakes are learning opportunities. And in Star Wars, there are plenty of both. The original trilogy has a lot to teach us about leadership styles. In particular, the Galactic Empire is a quintessential example of how not to run an organisation. …Star Wars7 min read
Pete Sueref·Apr 27October, 1981 and Everything AfterIn October, 1981, the first mobile telephone network was set up in Sweden, Ayatollah Khamenei was elected president of Iran, and my father, Spiro, crashed his Ford Capri. Although the crash was on a back street in Cardiff that today would have resulted in some airbags inflating and an annoying…Safety6 min read
Sian Richards·Apr 20Tips For Beginners from a Front-End DeveloperDavid is a front-end developer for Empirisys, currently completing his MSc in Computing. Here, he shares some of the tips he’s picked up while learning web development over the last few years. …Coding5 min read
Fred McArthur·Apr 14Step-by-Step Rotating Radar Charts in Power BIEmpirisys had a request from a client to build a very specific visualisation feature in PowerBI: a radar chart that can rotate. Our client wanted to visualise their data in quadrants, so wanted the ability to rotate a radar chart to a different starting angle. An example of this can…Power Bi4 min read
Peter Sueref·Mar 16Building Brilliant Data Viz on Google Data StudioGoogle Data Studio (GDS) opened the beta for community visualisations in January of 2020. Since then, a whole bunch of great visualisations have been developed, but these visualisations don’t always exactly match the user need. We at Empirisys were asked if we could build a visualisation to be used in…Data Vizualisation6 min read
